admin posted on December 17, 2011 21:57
Winter is here and there is one thing on our minds and that’s riding our sleds! This off season has been a challenge for ALL of our trail captains. Due to the lack of respect for landowner’s properties, Our club had to replace a couple of our landowner's trees, and they were very pleased with us after taking care of the damage after the whole destruction incident...(there is still a $500 reward for arrest and conviction of the person(s) who did the damage.) However, the trail has been changed in French Creek to the tune of at least $4000+ in materials and many volunteer hours for the new trail.
There have been many trail changes in Findley Lake, Sherman, and French Creek, Mayville, Brocton, and Panama due to issues with snowmobilers not staying on the designated trails as per landowner agreement and trail markings! This costs a lot of time, money, and hard labor by a select few for those that don't abide by the rules. Remember it is a privilege to ride on someone else's property.....STAY ON TRAIL OR STAY HOME! To the good thought, we do have more new trails this year....2 in the Mayville State Lands, one near Brocton and you can now access Fuel in Brocton and the trail going to Busti, NY, but to make the trail in Busti go further, we need many new volunteers from the Frewsburg, NY area to help with this advancement and dollars to be found to make this happen. So for now, you can get in town to Busti but that's all for this year.
Our club has also purchased a 2006 BR 180 and 3 2011 Mogul Master 18-09, 11 Blade Drags! You will also see many improvements on the Findley Lake trail and Mayville-Stockton trail all made wider, and smoother Due to all the new changes, please be aware of the postings/markings and stay in the designated marked areas. Please respect the landowner....no gestures or complaining...without them our trails would not be possible!
Another new thing we are doing this year is going paperless. Our club spends thousands of dollars on mailings which could be used for fuel for our groomer fleet. A night of grooming cost’s the club over $1000 in fuel and we groom 4 nights a week (sometimes 7 in some areas) with all 9 of our Groomers! Our club has figured out to be an average of over $1000 PER-MILE to operate our 200+ mile trail system every year.
You will receive your membership renewal in the late summer via US Mail and your membership packet which you just received. All we ask you to do is add your email address so we can get your voucher to you in the fall after you sent in you payment for renewal to CLSC. We DO NOT distribute or sell our membership list to anyone! We will be sending our info for the end of season party later this year via email and any other communications we may need to send, and always check the club website www.chautauquasnow.com for trail closures, openings and events!
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